Some Imput on Upgrading budget gaming pc

[stone81]

Its Update or comply and cave to a new gen game console which I don't really want to do.

Approximate Purchase Date: 2 weeks

Budget Range: £375

System Usage from Most to Least Important: gaming, surfing the internet, watching movies)

Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts to Upgrade: MOBO maybe, RAM needed and graphics card possible
Do you need to buy OS: No
sites I would use need to be EU Based

Location: N.Ireland

I currently have a FX 8350 cpu and gigabyte R9 270oc 2gb twinfrost. corsair 2x 4gb ddr3 1600mhz
psu is corsair 750watt system builder, water cooler corsair H100i, 500gb Samsung evo ssd, x2 Hitachi 2tb sata drives and wireless network card mobo is an Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0

I just want to get the most from my pc without having to spend much more.

Overclocking: Yes

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080,

 

[BrandonYoung]

I would recommend getting a new graphics card, as it seems the rest of your system is not too bad.
I would suggest perhaps a GTX 970(or better depending on budget), maybe R9 390.

This is a great reference:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html

Rough performance comparison of various models:
http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu

Best of luck!

 

[horsemeAT]

The thing about your question, is you aren't really specifying what you really need to do. We don't know what kind of games you will be playing, the RAM you have right now is fine for gaming and everything you said, and your graphics cards and mobo are pretty much fine by what i see. I can see though if you want to be able to play newer games better, so if that's what you have in mind i'll give you some options that might be useful for you:

If you're upgrading from a r9 270, it doesn't make sense to upgrade to something slightly better, so if you plan to upgrade your graphics at least make the upgrade minimum an r9 380x, yet i would honestly jsut recommend going straight for the gtx 970.

For that motherboard, i don't know a lot of AMD motherboard knowledge so ic an't help you much there, but your motherboard currently is worth 100, so i would say only upgrade to something that is substantially better in quality in the 150$ range.

For RAM, it probably makes the most sense to upgrade, so i would recommend one of G.SKILL's module sets; snipers, ripjawsX, ripjawsZ, Ares, tridents..
But whatever you do, make sure your motherboard can actually support it, you don't want to spend more money n faster RAM only to find out your motherboard supports a lower speed at it's most.

Other than that, you literally don't really have a reason to upgrade your other components- storage, coolers, network card, etc

So recap- Upgrade your graphics card, and RAM. Motherboard is completely your choice, for instance you say you might do some SLI/crossfire.
Hope i could help man. For sites, i don't really know what to tell you, but i'm pretty sure PCpartpicker has availability in the EU, and it's probably the best site for this type of thing, so if you can go with that.

 

[stone81]

Hi and thanks for the replies, I was looking at maybe getting a second r270 and upping the ram to 16gb at 2133mhz but then again if the system is fine then what is the point I wanted to play the newer games at 1080p without much lag as I have seen with black ops3 on my pc its just not as fast as I would like

I will go away and have a look at other options and see what is right for me

many thanks all

 

[horsemeAT]

Hi and thanks for the replies, I was looking at maybe getting a second r270 and upping the ram to 16gb at 2133mhz but then again if the system is fine then what is the point I wanted to play the newer games at 1080p without much lag as I have seen with black ops3 on my pc its just not as fast as I would like

I will go away and have a look at other options and see what is right for me

many thanks all

No problem man, hope you figure it all out